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PLUTARCH, AEMILIUS PROBUS and others. Vitae Plutarchi Cheronei . . . Nec non cum Aemilij Probi vitis. Una cum figuris: suis locis apte dispositis. Translated and edited by Gerardus Vercellanus after Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Venice: Melchior Sessa and Petrus de Ravanis, 26 November 1516.
2° in 8s (300 x 202mm). Collation: +8 ++8 +++.0; A-z8 AA-YY8. Title in red and black with woodcut device of Sessa (cf. Vaccaro p. 376, fig. 473), 77 woodcut portraits, decorative cribblé woodcut initials throughout, woodcut printer's device after colophon. (Title with repair to inner margin and wormholes affecting device, lacking final ?blank, inner margins with some worming thoughout, mainly unobtrusive and affecting one or two letters in last two quires, several leaves neatly strengthened at inner margins, B1 torn at inner margin and LL8 at upper margin, affecting some text, occasional light staining.) Old limp vellum (head of spine damaged, one or two worm holes, a little soiled).
First Sessa edition of Plutarch's Lives, and one of the first projects on which Melchior Sessa collaborated with Petrus de Ravanis: their association had begun by August 1516 and was to continue until 1525 (cf. F. J. Norton Italian Printers 1501-1520, London: 1958, pp. 151-2). The work is largely drawn from Plutarch, but with additions from Aemilius Probus, Isocrates, Cornelius Nepos, Guarinus Veronensis and Donatus Acciaiolus.
2° in 8s (300 x 202mm). Collation: +8 ++8 +++.0; A-z8 AA-YY8. Title in red and black with woodcut device of Sessa (cf. Vaccaro p. 376, fig. 473), 77 woodcut portraits, decorative cribblé woodcut initials throughout, woodcut printer's device after colophon. (Title with repair to inner margin and wormholes affecting device, lacking final ?blank, inner margins with some worming thoughout, mainly unobtrusive and affecting one or two letters in last two quires, several leaves neatly strengthened at inner margins, B1 torn at inner margin and LL8 at upper margin, affecting some text, occasional light staining.) Old limp vellum (head of spine damaged, one or two worm holes, a little soiled).
First Sessa edition of Plutarch's Lives, and one of the first projects on which Melchior Sessa collaborated with Petrus de Ravanis: their association had begun by August 1516 and was to continue until 1525 (cf. F. J. Norton Italian Printers 1501-1520, London: 1958, pp. 151-2). The work is largely drawn from Plutarch, but with additions from Aemilius Probus, Isocrates, Cornelius Nepos, Guarinus Veronensis and Donatus Acciaiolus.